2-634-425 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Old Houses, Staple Inn, High Holborn, London', 1905. Staple Inn is a Tudor building in the City of London, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Staple Inn dates from 1585. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived the Great Fire of London, but was extensively damaged by a Nazi German Luftwaffe aerial bomb in 1944 and subsequently restored. [Hartmann, London, c1905]